Biology and Marine Biology

However we have no formal
means of determining how
often these activities are
occurring and therefore
cannot evaluate whether
they are affecting student
performance on this SLO.
Thus in 2010-2011 we are
going to implement two
new assessment tools: 1) a
questionnaire for all
graduate students to ask
how many times they have
participated in oral
discussions, such as mock
exams or interactions in the
classroom with the
instructor and other
students; 2) a questionnaire
for faculty asking how often
they have incorporated oral
skills and discussion in the
class. We hope that this
information will let you
evaluate whether these
activities are being carried
out, and if so whether they
are helping our students
reach a higher level of
achievement for this SLO.
SLO3: A graduate student

should be able to

communicate his or her

research to a broadly-

trained public audience.

Link to UNCW Learning

Goal: thoughtful expression

Departmental Seminar

presentation of thesis

research is successfully

completed. An assessment

form is filled out by

departmental faculty

members after the thesis

Each student in the program

is assessed by all faculty

members in the department

attending the seminar. Data

on presentation quality,

mastery of research,

professional poise and

ability to answer questions

are collected.

The faculty assessed

performance of this learning

outcome to be good for the

majority of students, in

organization (95%), mastery

of research (90%), ability to

field questions from the

audience (90%) and

professional poise (90%).

The faculty discussed the

results of assessment to

date at the 2010 retreat and

decided that our students

are meeting our

expectations in this SLO and

that no action will be taken.